Shinrin-yoku (‘森林浴’) (i.e., forest bathing), a Japanese wellbeing practice, aims to harmonise a person with a forest by bathing in the forest mindfully using our five senses (Miyazaki, 2018). Practitioners can choose whatever they like to focus on in the forest: different colours of leaves, the sounds of streams, or the warmth of sunshine beaming between leaves. Since the birth of this practice in 1982, shinrin-yoku has been widely used in the Japanese clinical fields (Hansen, Jones, & Tocchini, 2017). Recently, this healing practice has received attention from healthcare practitioners and researchers worldwide (Wen, Yan, Pan, Gu, & Liu, 2019). In this commentary, we will discuss limitations of the current shinrin-yoku research, and how future research can be conducted to appraise the effects of shinrin-yoku on addiction.

日本的健康实践“森林浴”（Shinrin-yoku）（即森林浴）旨在通过使用五种感官在森林中沐浴来使人与森林和谐（宫崎骏，2018年）。从业人员可以选择他们想在森林中关注的任何事物：不同颜色的树叶，溪流的声音或树叶间阳光的温暖。自1982年这种做法诞生以来，Shinrin-yoku已被广泛应用于日本临床领域（Hansen，Jones和Tocchini，2017年）。最近，这种治疗方法受到了全世界医疗保健从业者和研究人员的关注（Wen，Yan，Pan，Gu，＆Liu，2019）。在这篇评论中，我们将讨论当前的新灵育种研究的局限性，以及如何进行未来的研究以评估新灵育种对成瘾的影响。